SQUAWKING DEAD: FearTWDSeason7

Monday, June 13, 2022

[Episode 195] Season 7, Episode 16 of Fear The Walking Dead, "Gone"

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Is no one really gone until they're gone? #MadisonClark has returned AND has finally crossed paths with #MorganJones and we have a LOT to say about that. #AliciaClark may be "gone", but her presence still casts quite the shadow over our episode coverage. It feels like a long-overdue clearing of the table that is #FearTWD's 7th season is finally complete and we're already setting it for #FearTWDseason8!

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Jasmine:
Birdget:

Jasmine, in response to Dave calling out Rachael's impending drunkenness this episode (and recreational stealth in prior episodes): Don't do drugs kids!
Fear the Walking Dead's 7th Season finally comes to a close!
Sherrandy, "I was rooting for the crabs!"
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Jasmine: Hated this past half season, but really enjoyed the finale.
Bridget: Really loved both Morgan Jones and Madison Clark at different times in their lives, but feels they were out of character this season.
Bridget: This episode felt like a backdoor pilot.
Should they have just let Madison appear, or was it right to announce it on Talking Dead? Meanwhile, enjoy as DAVE REACTS to the moment when it was revealed that Kim Dickens was returning to Fear TWD.
Sherrandy: Enjoyed the episode, on its own, but doesn't like Madison or Morgan.
Jasmine: Enjoyed Madison for the first time because she was presented as severely compromised.
How will Madison feel if and when she meets Charlie?
Will Charlie survive long enough to even meet Madison, again?
Check out our last episode with Sarabeth Pollock!
What was your impressions of Madison's reaction when Morgan finally reveals the fate of her children? Dave was very emotional: WHISPERERS Tier member, Aidan, saw it first hand!
Did you feel disappointed by Madison's reaction/behavior?
How long has Madison been working with PADRE?
When and in what manner did you start watching Fear the Walking Dead? Did you start watching since day one, in 2015, or did you start midseason, somewhere, and rewatch? Were you only introduced in the 4th Season, like Sherrandy?
Could PADRE be affiliated with the Civic Republic Military? Or Perhaps The Commonwealth?
Bridget spots that Morgan/Madison are somewhere in Louisiana!
What role might Sherry play in this upcoming storyline?
Continuing our thought process from the last episode (because you can't unring a bell), could Annie, Max, and Dylan (et al) have been at PADRE this whole time?
Could most of our unaccounted for characters be at PADRE?!
Will Morgan ever figure out how to quit that radio, cold turkey? Walkie-fiend...
Who is your favorite character in The Walking Dead Universe? Do you have a favorite on each TWDU show?
Bridget: Can we be we certain that PADRE even picked up Baby Morgan?
We had heard or (may have mis)interpreted Madison's callsign as Jay. Sherrandy notes that Blue Jays are known for their intelligence and complex social systems with tight family bonds; however, Blue Jays are known to take and eat eggs and nestlings of other birds. (allaboutbirds.org)
Was Morgan's decision to let Ava go a wise one?
Ava joins the ranks of many characters that perished in the same episode they were introduced, this season.
Were you, like Dave, reminded of Morgan's encounter with walker Rachel (Baby Mo's biological mother, played by Brigitte Kali Canales) when walker Ava was revealed to him? Or, perhaps you thought as Sherrandy did and were reminded of the man/walker Morgan tried to save in Episode 4x01.
What would you call Madison's new weapon?
Dave: No complaints on this episode.
In what ways are Victor Strand and Madison different and the same?
Would Madison have been a successful, long lasting leader of Strand's Tower?
How would Madison have reacted to Teddy Maddox?
What motivation does Madison have (to live and move about the series/universe) in the absence of her children?
What might be on the horizon for Season 8?
We went from Beer Bottle Balloons (the impossible is possible) to nuclear fallout (nothing is possible): We've had quite the rollercoaster of a journey.
It's been confirmed that the anthology-style storytelling will continue, but largely in the same setting (PADRE): do you think it gives us a deeper dive into characters than we would've had otherwise or have you felt fatigued/distressed by the lack of characters appearing in a given episode?
What are you possibly most looking forward to in Season 8?
What might Madison & Strand's reunion look like?
Will Victor Strand live up to Alicia Clark's sacrifice?
You know what they (don't) say: A Victor a day keeps the Morgan at bay! ...or vice versa!

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Monday, June 6, 2022

[Episode 194] Season 7, Episode 15 of Fear The Walking Dead, "Amina"

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In Celebration of Fear The Walking Dead's 100th Episode, we go on quite the emotional journey with our guest, Sarabeth Pollock , as we transpose this episode over the series, at large, which allowed us to appreciate its beautiful journey (as well as that of #AliciaClark) as well as understand its flaws.... and, perhaps, the cracks that have formed within us all over the last few years and our relationship to #FearTWD over the course of time.

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Bridget: In an effort to remain positive, "I think I liked this episode?"
Rachael: "I didn't hate it", liked it when compared to other episodes in the back half of this season.
Sherrandy: Personally feels the back half has been way too Alicia Clark & Victor Strand heavy.
Dave: Loved the episode because of Sherrandy's reasons.
Sarabeth Pollock: Both this season and last season was written/filmed this way due to the challenges stemming from the ongoing Pandemic, which includes Alycia Debnam-Carey's personal struggle getting to and from Australia (home).
On this episode and our last together, Sarabeth also mentioned that anthologized stories like these are better dropped in one go, like a Netflix series, so we're not left waiting week-by-week. Catch our last conversation with Sarabeth, here:
How would the story be written and portrayed differently had we not endured a pandemic?
Sarabeth: Fear the Walking Dead is more about emotions rather than big battles.
What does the show look like with Alicia gone?
We brought up the prospect of Alicia/Alycia leaving the show in our conversation with Ben, from Just Keep Walking podcast, here:
Was this a fitting-enough send off for Alicia Clark?
Would it have been better for Alicia to be killed off or left open-ended, as depicted in this episode?
Is it possible that the show-runners brought back Madison Clark to soften the blow of Alicia's departure?
Will we ever see Alicia Clark again?
If we see Alicia Clark again, where/when will it be?
Could Alicia's last scene be interpreted to mean that she is already dead?
How will Madison react to the news of Alicia and Nick Clark being gone?
How do you feel knowing most of our characters will be missing from the Season Finale based on the teaser?
Was the Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki Amina footage re-recorded or was it (the un)cut (version) from the original episode (in 4x08)?
Contrary to popular opinion, Dave thinks fans won't flee the show, now that Alicia/Alycia is no longer on it (during a chat with redditor u/ChrisTheBeat)
Bridget: In response to characters repeatedly shuttling Alicia back to the beach, "What was this Groundhog Day shit?"
Were Alicia's fever dreams excessive, throughout this season?
Will all of our characters show up on screen more frequently next season?
Is Amina (the bird Alicia sees throughout the episode) more representative of Nick, Madison, or is it just the injured bird she and Nick refused to give up on when they were little?
Did Alicia make the right call by saving Strand?
Is Alicia just trying to follow in Madison's footsteps?
Would you say that, ironically, Alicia left behind her own legacy?
Moving forward, will our characters inhabit their truest form/selves?
But why did Sarah Rabinowitz have the best lines of the episode?
It's that time again: will we ever see those kids again? Among many flashes of walkers of seasons past, seeing a flash of the bowel blockade walkers had both Rachael & Dave going a little nutty.
Flashes of walkers from seasons past mark Alicia's departure as the end of an era.
Was the nuclear zombie apocalypse narrative/setting exhausting?
Did the pandemic make the The Walking Dead Universe too real (contributing to that exhaustion), thereby influencing our perception of the present storyline?
In response, Sarabeth says "Yes, absolutely," however, TWDU prepared her for the pandemic because, sometimes, the people in charge don't take things/people seriously enough until it's already too late.